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...weather Lothario gets his comeuppance from a free-thinking London model (Jane Merrow) who smoothly beats him at his own game. She lets him drive her Buick Riviera and invites him to her father's luxurious summer home, where one of her donnish young Establishment pals sneeringly trounces him in a tennis match. Tinker ultimately sees himself as the girl sees him-inconsequential and rather desperate, not a galloping individualist who puts down society because it stinks, but a wobbly nonentity who is afraid to grow up and compete for all the dandy, vulgar goodies the world affords...
...France. He drained 2,100 acres of the Camargue. a brackish swamp west of Marseille, pumped in fresh water, raised crops that led to an industry that has made France self-sufficient in rice. At war's end Ricard returned to pastis making. As Frenchmen flocked to the Riviera for sun and fun, they picked up the pastis habit, demanded what Ricard calls his "sunshine in a bottle" when they got home. With rising orders from all of France, Ricard's production went from 3,800,000 bottles in 1949 to 16 million in 1959. The company eventually...
Busier Than the French Line. Ricard spends much of his time on the Riviera, last week played host there to a varied list that included Red Chinese diplomats, Ricard truck drivers, private secretaries attending conventions and Italian Film Maker Roberto Rossellini. He leaves pastis operations to subordinates. "I'm not here to run the business day to day," he tells them, "but to foresee the future." Cushioning that future, Ricard has expanded into mineral water, fruit juices, cognac, wine and vermouth...
...Human Fossils. From the size of the building it is reasonable to conjecture that it was inhabited by a group of no more than 15 persons. The inhabitants of the Riviera site were clearly hunters, not fishermen, for no fish fossils or sea shells have been uncovered. And there is evidence that the site was only a temporary dwelling; had it been a permanent home, there would have been more bones and tools around. In fact, because he has found the outlines of as many as five different dwellings on the Nice hillsite, De Lumley has decided that prehistoric hunters...
When fully explored and analyzed, De Lumley's discovery may compel a drastic reassessment of the social organization and civilization of pre-Neanderthal man in Europe. Until now, working with the meager data available, scientists have been convinced that, unlike the men who inhabited the Riviera site, the creatures of the Second Interglacial Period lived in the open or sought shelter in caves. They were clearly far more civilized than that...